scholarly journals The systemic inflammatory response and clinicopathological characteristics in patients admitted to hospital with COVID-19 infection: Comparison of 2 consecutive cohorts

PLoS ONE ◽  
2021 ◽  
Vol 16 (5) ◽  
pp. e0251924
Author(s):  
Donogh Maguire ◽  
Conor Richards ◽  
Marylynne Woods ◽  
Ross Dolan ◽  
Jesse Wilson Veitch ◽  
...  

Background In order to manage the COVID-19 systemic inflammatory response, it is important to identify clinicopathological characteristics across multiple cohorts. Methods The aim of the present study was to compare the 4C mortality score, other measures of the systemic inflammatory response and clinicopathological characteristics in two consecutive cohorts of patients on admission with COVID-19. Electronic patient records for 2 consecutive cohorts of patients admitted to two urban teaching hospitals with COVID-19 during two 7-week periods of the COVID-19 pandemic in Glasgow, U.K. (cohort 1: 17/3/2020–1/5/2020) and (cohort 2: 18/5/2020–6/7/2020) were examined for routine clinical, laboratory and clinical outcome data. Results Compared with cohort 1, cohort 2 were older (p<0.001), more likely to be female (p<0.05) and have less independent living circumstances (p<0.001). More patients in cohort 2 were PCR positive, CXR negative (both p<0.001) and had low serum albumin concentrations (p<0.001). 30-day mortality was similar between both cohorts (23% and 22%). In cohort 2, age >70 (p<0.05), male gender (p<0.05), COPD (p<0.05), cognitive impairment (p<0.05), frailty (p<0.001), delirium (p = 0.001), CRP>150mg/L (p<0.05), albumin <30 g/L (p<0.01), elevated perioperative Glasgow Prognostic Score (p<0.05), elevated neutrophil-lymphocyte ratio (p<0.001), low haematocrit (p<0.01), elevated PT (p<0.05), sodium <133 mmol/L (p<0.01) elevated urea (p<0.001), creatinine (p<0.001), glucose (p<0.05) and lactate (p<0.001) and the 4C score (p<0.001) were associated with 30-day mortality. In multivariate analysis, greater frailty (CFS>3) (OR 11.3, 95% C.I. 2.3–96.7, p<0.05), low albumin (<30g/L) (OR 2.5, 95% C.I. 1.0–6.2, p<0.05), high NLR (≥3) (OR 2.2, 95% C.I. 1.5–4.5, p<0.05) and the 4C score (OR 2.4, 95% C.I. 1.0–5.6, p<0.05) remained independently associated with 30-day mortality. Conclusion In addition to the 4C mortality score, frailty score and a low albumin were strongly independently associated with 30-day mortality in two consecutive cohorts of patients admitted to hospital with COVID-19. Trial registration clinicaltrials.gov: NCT04484545.

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Donogh Maguire ◽  
Conor Richards ◽  
Marylynne Woods ◽  
Ross Dolan ◽  
Jesse Wilson Veitch ◽  
...  

AbstractBackgroundIn order to manage the COVID-19 systemic inflammatory response, it is important to identify clinicopathological characteristics across multiple cohorts.MethodsElectronic patient records for 2 consecutive cohorts of patients admitted to two urban teaching hospitals with COVID-19 during two 7-week periods of the COVID-19 pandemic in Glasgow, U.K. (cohort 1: 17th March 2020 – 1st May 2020) and (cohort 2: 18th May 2020 – 6th July 2020) were examined for routine clinical, laboratory and clinical outcome data.ResultsCompared with cohort 1, cohort 2 were older (p<0.001), more likely to be female (p<0.05) and have less independent living circumstances (p<0.001). More patients in cohort 2 were PCR positive, CXR negative (both p<0.001) and had low serum albumin concentrations (p<0.001). 30-day mortality was similar between both cohorts (23% and 22%). Over the 2 cohorts, age ≥70 (p<0.001), male gender (p<0.05), hypertension (p<0.01), heart failure (p<0.05), cognitive impairment (p<0.001), frailty (p<0.001), COPD (p<0.05), delirium (p<0.001), elevated perioperative Glasgow Prognostic Score (p≤0.001), elevated neutrophil-lymphocyte ratio (p<0.001), low haematocrit (p<0.01), elevated urea (p<0.001), creatinine (p<0.001), glucose (p<0.05) and lactate (p<0.01); and the 4C score were associated with 30-day mortality. When compared with the 4C score, greater frailty (OR 10.2, 95% C.I. 3.4 – 30.6, p<0.01) and low albumin (OR 5.6, 95% C.I. 2.0 – 15.6, p<0.01) were strongly independently associated with 30-day mortality.ConclusionIn addition to the 4C mortality score, frailty score and a low albumin were strongly independently associated with 30-day mortality in two consecutive cohorts of patients admitted to hospital with COVID-19.Article summaryIn two consecutive cohorts of patients with COVID-19 infection admitted to two urban teaching hospitals in Glasgow, UK, there were variations in a number of clinicopathological characteristics despite similar mortality (23 and 22%).In these two cohorts, in a multivariate analysis that included the 4C mortality score, clinical frailty score >3, low serum albumin concentration (<35 g/L), high neutrophil-lymphocyte ratio (≥5), and abnormal serum sodium concentration (<133/>145 mmol/L) remained independently associated with 30-day mortality.


Author(s):  
Pedro Marques ◽  
Friso de Vries ◽  
Olaf M Dekkers ◽  
Márta Korbonits ◽  
Nienke R Biermasz ◽  
...  

Abstract Context Serum inflammation-based scores reflect systemic inflammatory response and/or patients’ nutritional status, and may predict clinical outcomes in cancer. While these are well-described and increasingly used in different cancers, their clinical usefulness in the management of patients with endocrine tumors is less known. Evidence acquisition A comprehensive PubMed search was performed using the terms “endocrine tumor”, “inflammation”, “serum inflammation-based score”, “inflammatory-based score”, “inflammatory response-related scoring”, “systemic inflammatory response markers”, “Neutrophil-to-lymphocyte ratio”, “Neutrophil-to-platelet ratio”, “Lymphocyte-to-monocyte ratio”, “Glasgow Prognostic Score”, “Neutrophil-Platelet Score”, “Systemic Immune-Inflammation Index”, and “Prognostic Nutrition Index” in clinical studies. Evidence synthesis The Neutrophil-to-Lymphocyte Ratio and the Platelet-to-Lymphocyte Ratio are the ones most extensively investigated in patients with endocrine tumors. Other scores have also been considered in some studies. Several studies focused in finding whether serum inflammatory biomarkers may stratify the endocrine tumor patients’ risk and detect those at risk for developing more aggressive and/or refractory disease, particularly after endocrine surgery. Conclusions In this review, we summarize the current knowledge on the different serum inflammation-based scores and their usefulness in predicting the phenotype, clinical aggressiveness, disease outcomes and prognosis in patients with endocrine tumors. The value of such serum inflammation-based scores in the management of patients with endocrine tumors has been emerging over the last decade. However, further research is necessary to establish useful markers and their cut-offs for routine clinical practice for individual diseases.


2019 ◽  
Vol 5 (2) ◽  
Author(s):  
Majid Ali ◽  
Alexia Farrugia ◽  
Ricky Bhogal ◽  
Saboor Khan ◽  
Gabriele Marangoni ◽  
...  

Introduction: Assessment of systemic inflammatory response forms the basis of several scoring systems that attempt to prognosticate patients with periampullary pancreatic carcinoma (PPC). We assessed the validity of three of these scoring systems for patients’ prognosis following intervention for PPC: Glasgow prognostic score (GPS) and its modified version (mGPS), platelet-lymphocyte ratio (PLR) and neutrophil-lymphocyte ratio (NLR).Methods: EMBASE and MEDLINE databases were searched for all published studies until September 2018 using comprehensive text word and MeSH terms. Meta-analysis of observational studies in epidemiology guidelines was followed. All identified studies were analysed and relevant studies were included in the review.Results: Three studies which assessed the role of GPS, four studies that evaluated the use of NLR and three that assessed the role of PLR in patients with PPC were identified. None of these studies demonstrated any value in the pre-operative assessment of patients with PPC. The limited number of studies available precluded further statistical analysis.Conclusions: Based on available evidence, GPS, NLR and PLR do not appear to be useful scoring systems to predict prognosis of patients with PPC. Larger studies are warranted before the application of inflammatory scoring systems could be recommended in patients with PPC.Key words: Periampullary cancer, Glasgow prognostic score, modified Glasgow prognostic score, platelet-lymphocyte ratio, neutrophil-lymphocyte ratio


2020 ◽  
Vol 38 (4_suppl) ◽  
pp. 130-130
Author(s):  
Tanvir Abbass ◽  
Ross Dolan ◽  
Stephen Thomas McSorley ◽  
Paul G. Horgan ◽  
Donald C. McMillan

130 Background: There is now good evidence that sarcopenia and myosteatosis, measured as low skeletal muscle index (SMI) and low skeletal muscle density (SMD) from CT scans, are associated with poor survival in patients undergoing surgery for CRC. However, this is not clear whether this is as a result of tumour burden or chronic inflammation. Methods: The relationship between tumour stage, systemic inflammatory response using modified Glasgow prognostic score (mGPS), neutrophil lymphocyte ratio (NLR) and sarcopenia and myosteatosis using defined SMI/SMD was examined in 840 patients undergoing CRC resection from a prospectively maintained database. Results: The majority of patients were > 65 years of age (64.5%), male (55%) and did not have sarcopenia (51%) but had myosteatosis (65%). In those patients with a mGPS = 0 (n = 617), mGPS = 1 (n = 99), mGPS = 2 (n = 124), TNM stage of 0-I, II and III was not associated with sarcopenia (p = 0.260, p = 0.869 and p = 0.458 respectively) or myosteatosis (p = 0.136, p = 0.879 and p = 0.06 respectively). In those patients with TNM stage of 0-I (n = 202), stage II (n = 346) and stage III (n = 292), mGPS (0,1,2) was significantly associated with sarcopenia (p = 0.329, p = 0.001 and p = 0.002 respectively) and myosteatosis (p = 0.329, p < 0.001 and p = 0.001 respectively). In patients with TNM stage of 0-I, stage II and stage III, NLR was significantly associated with sarcopenia (p = 0.492, p = 0.299 and 0.027 respectively) and myosteatosis (p = 0.870, p = 0.012 and p = 0.019 respectively). Conclusions: Compared with tumour burden, the systemic inflammatory response (particularly mGPS) appears to have a greater influence on the development of sarcopenia and myosteatosis. These results have implications for the treatment of sarcopenia and myosteatosis in patients undergoing surgery for CRC.


2012 ◽  
Vol 30 (15_suppl) ◽  
pp. e14092-e14092
Author(s):  
Michelle Leana Ramanathan ◽  
Campbell SD Roxburgh ◽  
Paul G Horgan ◽  
Donald C. Mcmillan

e14092 Background: Patients with colorectal cancer who have a raised systemic inflammatory response have been shown to have poorer outcomes, independent of their tumour stage. In particular, the combination of C-reactive protein (CRP) and albumin, the modified Glasgow Prognostic Score (mGPS) has been shown to have consistent and superior prognostic value. However, the basis of a systemic inflammatory response in these patients is not clear. One hypothesis is that the presence of a systemic inflammatory response in patients with colorectal cancer may be due to impaired cortisol production, a potent anti-inflammatory agent. Therefore, the aim of the present study was to examine the relationship between preoperative systemic inflammatory response and endogenous cortisol production. Methods: A prospective study was performed to incorporate the assessment of adrenocortical function using synthetic ACTH, a short Synacthen test, as part of the preoperative assessment of patients undergoing potentially curative resection for colorectal cancer. Preoperative systemic inflammatory response was assessed using mGPS. Results: A total of 80 patients underwent short Synacthen testing. The majority of patients were under 75 years old (79%), were male (59%), had colon cancer (75%) and had TNM stage I/II disease (54%). Approximately 50% received adjuvant treatment. Using standard criteria (peak cortisol <450 nmol/L = inadequate) impaired cortisol response was seen in 3 (4%) patients. There were no significant associations between the baseline, 30 minute, or change in cortisol (both relative and absolute) and age (p=0.814, p=0.443, p=0.730, p=0.929), sex (p=0.714, p=0.440, p=0.324, p=0.953), site (p=0.519, p=0.255, p=0.145, p=0.222), TNM stage (p=0.115, p=0.591, p=0.492, p=0.289), mGPS (p=0.280, p=0.202, p=0.800, p=0.818), or white cell count (p=0.787, p=0.316, p=0.462, p=0.567). Conclusions: The results of the present study show that impaired cortisol production, as evidenced by the short Synacthen test, was uncommon in patients with potentially curable colorectal cancer. Moreover, they indicate that the presence of a systemic inflammatory response is not associated with impaired cortisol production.


2016 ◽  
Vol 34 (4_suppl) ◽  
pp. 682-682
Author(s):  
Stephen Thomas McSorley ◽  
Bo Khor ◽  
Paul G. Horgan ◽  
Donald C McMillan

682 Background: The magnitude of the systemic inflammatory response before and after surgery for rectal cancer is increasingly understood to have an impact on clinical outcomes. The aim of the present study was to examine the impact of neoadjuvant chemoradiotherapy (nCRT) on pre- and postoperative systemic inflammation and clinical outcomes in patients undergoing surgery for rectal cancer. Methods: Data was recorded prospectively for patients who underwent elective, potentially curative surgery for rectal cancer, from 2008 to 2015 at a single centre, n = 251. Patients had routine pre- and postoperative blood sampling. Results: Of the 251 patients, the majority were male (62%) and over 65 years old (57%) with node negative disease (66%). 85 patients (33%) were allocated to preoperative nCRT based on probable margin threatening disease at preoperative MRI. nCRT was significantly associated with a higher proportion of patients having neutrophil lymphocyte ratio (NLR) > 5 (39% vs. 12%, p < 0.001), and a modified Glasgow Prognostic Score (mGPS) of 2 (14% vs. 6%, p = 0.035) prior to surgery. There was no significant association between nCRT and the magnitude of the postoperative systemic inflammatory response or complications. Of the 85 patients who underwent nCRT, there was a small but significant reduction in CRP following treatment (3.25 mg/L vs. 4.1 mg/L, p = 0.007). Of the 16 patients who were systemically inflamed prior to nCRT, 9 patients achieved mGPS score 0 after treatment (p = 0.004). There was a significant association between having an mGPS score 1 or 2 both before and after nCRT and breaching established thresholds of CRP on postoperative days 2 (190mg/L, 86% vs. 33%, p = 0.002), 3 (170mg/L, 86% vs. 38%, p = 0.015) and 4 (145mg/L, 71% vs. 36%, p = 0.031). Conclusions: Allocation to nCRT was significantly associated with a systemic inflammatory response prior to surgery for rectal cancer. nCRT was significantly associated with attenuation of existing systemic inflammation. Such attenuation of the systemic inflammatory response may in part explain the efficacy of nCRT in patients with rectal cancer.


2017 ◽  
Vol 35 (15_suppl) ◽  
pp. 3055-3055 ◽  
Author(s):  
Claire Gervais ◽  
Pascaline Boudou-Rouquette ◽  
Anne Jouinot ◽  
Olivier Huillard ◽  
Jerome Alexandre ◽  
...  

3055 Background: Nivolumab is the first checkpoint immunotherapeutic agent approved for NSCLC. By enabling host immune-mediated cytotoxic activity against tumor cells, nivolumab induces a tumor response in 15% of patients (pts). However, host-related parameters to predict nivolumab activity are still missing. We evaluated the predictive and prognostic value of the presence of a systemic inflammatory response. Methods: From July 2015 to December 2016, we measured at nivolumab initiation the Glasgow Prognostic Score (GPS), a cumulative prognostic score based on C-reactive protein and albumin, the neutrophil-lymphocyte ratio (NLR), the Nutrition Risk Index (NRI) and the Prognostic Nutritional Index (PNI). Univariate and multivariate analyses tested the association between initial patient characteristics and clinical outcome. Results: The characteristics of the 57 consecutive pts analyzed are: median age of 66 years (range 41-78), 65% non-squamous cell lung cancer, 61.4% males and 52.6% Performance Status (PS) 0-1. GPS was 0 in 27 (47.4%), 1 in 21 (36.8%) and 2 in 9 (15.8%) pts. In multivariate analysis, parameters associated with disease progression (per RECIST 1.1) were GPS (1-2 vs 0; HR 1.45 [1.11-1.90], p= 0.009) and number of metastatic sites (>2 vs ≤ 2; HR: 0.75 [0.57-0.98], p = 0.04). Overall survival was significantly worse for pts with PS 2-3 vs PS 0-1 (p=0.01) and for pts with GPS 2 vs GPS 0-1 (p=0.01). The GPS was an independent predictive marker of progression and was superior to other inflammation-based prognostic scores in our cohort (Table). Conclusions: The Glasgow Prognostic Score (GPS) allows identifying patients with disease progression and long survivors among metastatic NSCLC patients treated with nivolumab. [Table: see text]


2014 ◽  
Vol 2014 ◽  
pp. 1-10 ◽  
Author(s):  
Derek Grose ◽  
Graham Devereux ◽  
Louise Brown ◽  
Richard Jones ◽  
Dave Sharma ◽  
...  

Background. Prediction of survival in patients diagnosed with lung cancer remains problematical. The aim of the present study was to examine the clinical utility of an established objective marker of the systemic inflammatory response, the Glasgow Prognostic Score, as the basis of risk stratification in patients with lung cancer. Methods. Between 2005 and 2008 all newly diagnosed lung cancer patients coming through the multidisciplinary meetings (MDTs) of four Scottish centres were included in the study. The details of 882 patients with a confirmed new diagnosis of any subtype or stage of lung cancer were collected prospectively. Results. The median survival was 5.6 months (IQR 4.8–6.5). Survival analysis was undertaken in three separate groups based on mGPS score. In the mGPS 0 group the most highly predictive factors were performance status, weight loss, stage of NSCLC, and palliative treatment offered. In the mGPS 1 group performance status, stage of NSCLC, and radical treatment offered were significant. In the mGPS 2 group only performance status and weight loss were statistically significant. Discussion. This present study confirms previous work supporting the use of mGPS in predicting cancer survival; however, it goes further by showing how it might be used to provide more objective risk stratification in patients diagnosed with lung cancer.


2012 ◽  
Vol 30 (4_suppl) ◽  
pp. 223-223
Author(s):  
Soichiro Morinaga ◽  
Takuo Watanabe ◽  
Masakatsu Numata ◽  
Yo Mikayama ◽  
Hiroshi Tamagawa ◽  
...  

223 Background: Systemic inflammatory response (SIR) has been shown to associate with poor outcome in either inoperable or operable pancreatic cancer. However, whether the presence of a SIR predicts poor clinical outcome of pancreatic cancer patients in adjuvant setting is unclear. The aim of present study was to determine the relationship between SIR, as evaluated by Modified Glasgow prognostic score (mGPS), and outcome of pancreatic cancer patients treated with adjuvant chemotherapy. Methods: A total of 42 resected pancreatic cancer patients were analyzed for mGPS before adjuvant gemcitabine chemotherapy. The mGPS was constructed as follows: patients with both an elevated C-reactive protein (> 0.3mg/dl) and hypoalbuminaemia (< 3.5mg/dl) were allocated a score of 2. Patients with one or none of these abnormalities were allocated a score of 1or 0, respectively. Results: There were 25 patients assigned to score 0, 12 patients to score 1, and 5 patients to score 2. The median OS in patients with score 0, score 1, and score 2 were 23.9 months, 10.3 months, and 9.9 months, respectively. The DFS in patients with score 0, score 1, and score 2 were 11.0 months, 5.9 months, and 3.6 months, respectively. The OS and DFS after surgery of the patients with SIR (score 1 and 2) were significantly poorer than that of the patients with score 0 (P=0.0278 for OS, P=0.0011 for DFS by log-rank test). Conclusions: The presence of SIR, as evaluated by Modified Glasgow prognostic score (mGPS), predicts poor clinical outcome in resected pancreatic cancer patients treated with adjuvant gemcitabine monotherapy.


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